This week, the unadulterated strangeness that is American Horror Story: Freak Show will be taking down its tents and moving on into the back of our collective consciousness. But just because Season 5 is another ten months away, there’s no reason to avoid talking about it.

Ryan Murphy’s upcoming anthology drama American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson is putting together a cast that is starting to eclipse those of his American Horror Story seasons, at least in terms of wackiness. And this latest addition is the most interesting one yet.

Ryan Murphy’s next small screen endeavor, following the famous O.J. Simpson murder trial, is coming together much faster than we thought. This week the show signed on a famous comedic actor to play Robert Kardashian.

Ryan Murphy is spinning off the hit American Horror Story with the true crime anthology American Crime Story, with the first installment focusing on the O.J. Simpson trial that rocked the country 20 years ago. And this is who he's grabbing to play the former football great.

While the actors that showrunner Ryan Murphy likes to work with tend to repeat, there hasn't been a ton of connectivity between the seasons. Yet, this week, Ryan Murphy announced that despite time and location hops, every season of American Horror Story is connected in some way or another.

Is Ryan Murphy running out of ideas? This week Fox has decided to go straight to series with the latest endeavor from Ryan Murphy, along with Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk, Glee producer Ian Brennan and American Horror Story producer Dante Di Loreto. The new project is described as a horror anthology series crossed with a comedy based in a school.

Neil Patrick Harris has had a pretty huge run in recent years, starring in a variety of TV programs and movies. However, there was one opportunity where the actor definitely missed the mark. Harris recently spoke out to say he and his husband, David Burtka, were asked to play a couple in American Horror Story: Murder House, but he put his foot down to say no.

If you’ve been really tuned in to American Horror Story, you may already know that Jessica Lange has been planning for Freak Show to be her last appearance in the popular FX series. Lange’s such an integral part of the American Horror Story franchise, it’s tough to imagine the series without her, and luckily for fans, Ryan Murphy is not willing to let go of his leading lady without a fight.

Ryan Murphy is a pretty loyal guy, and if he finds a network or studio he likes, he will often continue to work with that network or studio. In the past, he’s worked on multiple projects with HBO, and now, Murphy’s signing on for another TV series with FX. FX has picked up American Crime Story, a new show that will have similarities to American Horror Story in title and format.

Psycho clowns, bearded ladies and lobster hands are only clawing the surface of American Horror Story: Freak Show's erratically mature new storyline. Come on down for the sights and sounds, and tell the ticket lady Jimmy Darling sent you.

It was a little surprising that the director eventually got the project off the ground with HBO rather than making The Normal Heart big screen endeavor like Running with Scissors or Eat, Pray Love, but HBO has always been on the cutting edge of television, and the new trailer for The Normal Heart seems to prove that picking up the project was probably the right call.

Ryan Murphy has been known to deliver some of the most ghastly imagery on television through FX’s American Horror Story, but he’s walking in a completely different shadow of darkness for his upcoming HBO film The Normal Heart, which focuses on the spread of AIDS through New York City in the early 1980s.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t already start thinking about the series’ fourth season and what kind of a horrific mash-up creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have coming. After a recent rumor surfaced that it would be another period piece, Murphy himself has come out saying the fourth season will be “set in 1950.” Can we assume that it will focus on Charles Schulz and the crafting of his classic Peanuts comic strip? Probably not.

Ryan Murphy’s FOX musicomedy/after-school special, Glee is about to hit one of the most sought-after milestones in TV, and there’s far more than a parade going on: it’s a goddamn veritable smorgasbord of characters. Murphy has very publicly announced (either because he’s the king of casting overshares or as a way to strong-arm everyone into involvement) on Twitter that he’s inviting everyone back for the show’s 100th episode.